Health inequalities in women and men

doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7245.1286

BMJ 2000;320:1286-1287 ( 13 May )

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Health inequalities in women and men

Studies of specific causes of death should use household criteria

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Women are often excluded from studies of health inequalities. The justification given for this is lack of data, but thereis also a belief that health inequalities are a smaller problemfor women than men. An additional problem is that it is more difficultand controversial to classify women by social class or by generalstanding in the community.^1-3

In this week's BMJ Sacker and colleagues show that using a particular indicator of social class or of social standing in thecommunity influences the size of health inequalities (p 1303).⁴They show that for women the mortality ratio comparing the bottomand the top groups in a seven step social scale is 1.75 when theCambridge scale of occupations is used. In contrast the same ratiofor women is only 1.52 with the categories in the new Office forNational Statistics (ONS) socioeconomic classification. For menthe contrast between top and . . . [Full text of this article]

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